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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Sherwin, BB0242 - TEACH IT Infrastructure Grants
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
State Government
General state government
Information technology infrastructure grant program
This bill repeals the obsolete information technology infrastructure grant program. DOA administered the grant program beginning in the 2017-18 fiscal year and ending in the 2020-2021 fiscal year. Under the grant program, DOA awarded grants on a competitive basis to eligible school districts and to eligible public libraries for the purpose of improving information technology infrastructure. Current law prohibits DOA from awarding these grants after June 30, 2021.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
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1. 16.9945 of the statutes is repealed.
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2. 20.505 (4) (s) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.505 (4) (s) Telecommunications access for educational agencies; infrastructure grants. Biennially, from the universal service fund, the amounts in the schedule to make payments to telecommunications providers under contracts under s. 16.971 (13), (14), and (15) to the extent that the amounts due are not paid from the appropriation under sub. (1) (is), and to make payments to telecommunications providers under contracts under s. 16.971 (16) to the extent that the amounts due are not paid from the appropriation under sub. (1) (kL), and to make information technology infrastructure grants under s. 16.9945.
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involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
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3. 196.218 (5) (a) 12. of the statutes is repealed.
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